the crash site mod also has assets for a power pole that has custom sprites for the crash site, 10 of those with wpp stats but maybe double wire reach would be really nice when the game decides to place the assembler 30 tiles north of the site

Yeah, I do have the power pole data internally, but it's commented out because I couldn't figure out anything useful or interesting to do with it; I also forget what it actually looks like, but I guess I can look into it

when the game decides to place the assembler 30 tiles north of the site

Also not sure what you mean by this; the spread pattern for the crash site should be relatively contained

it sometimes likes to place one of the assemblers really far north or south of the site specifically, like about 5 power poles worth of distance

So it looks like the Crash Site mod only has the icon graphics for a power pole (kinda yellowish-gold colored) but there's nothing for the actual entity itself. I'm not the most interested in making the graphic myself, since it isn't the most important thing.

thats really weird, i remember being able to place it in designer(and pressing r on it crashing my game)
looks like big hazard stripes on a lopsided angle

The base Crash Site mod does some minimal implementation of entities, but the power pole has no entity graphics (there is an empty 4x4 png labeled crash-site-electric-pole.png used as its only layer).